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Fadugba and O'Donoghue lead Hay's free winter workshops for young people across Wales
Femi Fadugba and Caroline O’Donoghue are among the writers leading free workshops for young people across Wales this winter.
The Scribblers Tour is run by Hay Festival and aims to “engage and encourage the next generation in storytelling and conversation, inspiring empathy and creativity”. Next year’s tour will run from 6th to 10th February and 13th to 17th February.
Compèred by YA novelist Jenny Valentine, sessions for Year Seven and Eight pupils will feature interactive activities with novelist Maz Evans and prize-winning poet Matt Goodfellow, while sessions for Year Nine and 10 pupils will feature sci-fi writer Fadugba and New York Times bestselling author O’Donoghue.
Events will be hosted at five Welsh universities – University of South Wales, Swansea University, Aberystwyth University, Cardiff Metropolitan University and Glyndwr University – offering pupils a chance to visit their nearest university and experience a taste of life on campus.
In addition, on the 17th February a special Hay Festival Scribblers Tour event will take place for adult learners at University of South Wales with programming details to be announced soon.
Julie Finch, Hay Festival c.e.o., said: “Hay Festival Scribblers Tour gives thousands of young people a chance to meet their writing heroes and get creative, bringing the Hay Festival experience direct to them. These free Festival days bring together partner universities, Hay Festival’s creative network and young people, to embark on an imaginative journey sharing stories through the power of writing, reading and listening, developing dialogue and celebrating talent, both established and new. We’re delighted to welcome this inspiring line-up of writers to our 2023 programme. Jenny Valentine, Maz Evans, Matt Goodfellow, Femi Fadugba and Caroline O’Donoghue make for a bold new team to guide pupils on their creative journeys.”
Hay Festival Scribblers Tour and Scribblers Cymraeg are funded by the Welsh Government and are part of Hay Festival’s wider outreach and education work that includes the free Programme for Schools, Hay Academy and the Beacons Project in the UK, and Hay Joven, Hay Communitario and Hay Festivalito internationally.
